The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 20

Here she stopped under a grove of palm trees, and told the ring that she wanted a house.

Who acts: snake · What happens: stop, tell, want · To what, where: grove, ring, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stopped	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 grove	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 grove	det
6	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stopped	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 trees	case
8	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 trees	compound
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 grove	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stopped	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ring	det
14	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 wanted	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanted	nsubj
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	ccomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 house	det
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wanted	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stop	past	snake		a grove of palm trees; here	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	past	snake not said here	the ring		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient clause=Topic
3	want	past	snake	a house		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot house=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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